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Creative Hubs in Question

Place, Space and Work in the Creative Economy

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Editors:
  1. Rosalind Gill

    1. City, University of London, London, UK

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  2. Andy C. Pratt

    1. City, University of London, London, UK

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  3. Tarek E. Virani

    1. Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

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  • The first sustained academic attempt to look critically at what, and how valuable, creative hubs are
  • Interdisciplinary and transnational material, with contributions from Estonia, Greece, Italy, Kenya, the Netherlands, and Turkey, amongst others
  • Based on empirical data and original research from hundreds of small and medium creative enterprises, as well as major cultural institutions such as the Tate and the British Library

Part of the book series: Dynamics of Virtual Work (DVW)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Andy C. Pratt, Tarek E. Virani, Rosalind Gill
    Pages 1-26

  3. Looking Inside the Cluster

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Herding Cats: Co-work, Creativity and Precarity in Inner Sydney

      • George Morgan, James Woodriff
      Pages 29-50

    3. Curating Strangers

      • Janet Merkel
      Pages 51-68

    4. Creative Hubs, Cultural Work and Affective Economies: Exploring ‘Unspeakable’ Experiences for Young Cultural Workers

      • David Lee
      Pages 69-88

    5. Hubs vs Networks in the Creative Economy: Towards a ‘Collaborative Individualism’

      • Carolina Bandinelli, Alessandro Gandini
      Pages 89-110

    6. Community-Led Coworking Spaces: From Co-location to Collaboration and Collectivization

      • Vasilis Avdikos, Eirini Iliopoulou
      Pages 111-129

    7. Hip Hub? Class, Race and Gender in Creative Hubs

      • Tarek E. Virani, Rosalind Gill
      Pages 131-154

    8. Creative Hubs: A Co-operative Space?

      • Marisol Sandoval, Jo Littler
      Pages 155-168

  4. Looking Outside the Cluster

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Istanbul’s Sounds and Its ‘Creative’ Hubs: Creative Actors Articulating the City into Transnational Networks Through Music

      • Ceren Mert
      Pages 171-187

    3. Nairobi’s iHub: Technology for Society

      • Øyvind Økland
      Pages 189-209

    4. Producing Values: Impact Hub Birmingham as Co-working and Social Innovation Space

      • Paul Long, Annette Naudin
      Pages 211-227

    5. Punk Rock Entrepreneurship: All-Ages DIY Music Venues and the Urban Economic Landscape

      • Michael Seman
      Pages 229-244

    6. Thinking Through the Creative Hub in Peripheral Places: A Long-View of the Dartington Hall Experiment in Rural Reconstruction Through Creativity

      • Nicola J. Thomas
      Pages 245-263

    7. From Making to Displaying: The Role of Organizational Space in Showing Creative Coolness at the Volkshotel

      • Boukje Cnossen
      Pages 265-279

    8. The City as a Creative Hub: The Case of the Fashion Industry in Milan, Italy

      • Marianna d’Ovidio, Valentina Pacetti
      Pages 281-298

    9. Grassroots Creative Hubs: Urban Regeneration, Recovered Industrial Factories and Cultural Production in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro

      • Cecilia Dinardi
      Pages 299-317

    10. Creative Hubs and the Night-Time Economy: Convergent or Divergent?

      • Andy C. Pratt, Tom Gill
      Pages 319-339
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About this book

Creative hubs have become a cornerstone of economic and cultural policy with only the barest amount of discussion or scrutiny. This volume offers the first interrogation of creative hubs, with ground-breaking critical writing from a combination of established scholars and new voices. Looking across multiple sites trans-nationally, and combining theoretical and empirical reflections, it asks: what are creative hubs, why do they matter, and are they making the world a better place?

Creative Hubs in Question discusses creative hubs in relation to debates about creative cities, co-working spaces and workers' co-operatives. Featuring case studies from Argentina to the Netherlands, and Nigeria to the UK, the contributions address how hubs are situated in relation to projects of equality and social justice, and whether and in what ways they change the experiences of the creatives who work in them. 

Drawing on a range of disciplinary perspectives including sociology,geography, economics, media and communications, culture and creative industries, critical policy studies, gender studies, race and ethnicity, and urban studies, this collection will be of interest to policy makers, academics, scholars, students and practitioners across these fields. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • City, University of London, London, UK

    Rosalind Gill, Andy C. Pratt

  • Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    Tarek E. Virani

About the editors

Rosalind Gill is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City, University of London, UK. 

Andy C. Pratt is Professor of Cultural Economy at City, University of London, UK.


Tarek E. Virani is Deputy Director of Network (Centre for the Creative and Cultural Economy) and Associate Lecturer at the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Creative Hubs in Question

  • Book Subtitle: Place, Space and Work in the Creative Economy

  • Editors: Rosalind Gill, Andy C. Pratt, Tarek E. Virani

  • Series Title: Dynamics of Virtual Work

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10653-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10652-2Published: 10 April 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-10653-9Published: 23 March 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2947-9290

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-9304

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 397

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociology of Work, Urban Studies/Sociology, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology

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